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Earlier this summer, Bob Brink paused for a memory from his first days in the General Assembly "A few weeks before I was sworn into office in 1998 … I took a walk around the Capitol and I stopped outside the House chamber. The curtains were open and the lights were on, and for the first time I saw the vote board with my name on it," he said in a Facebook post. "I've looked up at that board thousands of times since that night," Brink continued. "But every day, the knowledge that I'm one of a handful of Virginians whose numbers include Jefferson, Madison and Patrick Henry made me think that I must be the luckiest guy on earth." He then...

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Earlier this summer, Bob Brink paused for a memory from his first days in the General Assembly
"A few weeks before I was sworn into office in 1998 … I took a walk around the Capitol and I stopped outside the House chamber. The curtains were open and...

Some Virginia legislators are starting to think about ethical issues that erupted when former state Sen. Phil Puckett resigned and Del. Terry Kilgore confirmed he had discussed offering Puckett a lucrative post with the state tobacco commission.
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Transportation and port officials are planning a pitch to buy the former APM Terminals container shipping facility from its new owners, according to the state's top transportation leader.
Aubrey L. Lane Jr., Virginia secretary of transportation,...

Send them homeWhat we have in the regions north of our southern border with Mexico is Mexican and Central American-aided lawlessness. Nations are ignoring our laws in general and our immigration law in particular. The crisis has diverted our...

Editors' Note: "DP Buzz" is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short...

Four years ago, Karen Garner received a phone call she'll never forget.Her husband, Jim, traveling on business in Savannah, Ga., called to tell her he was looking at the same bridge that they'd seen on a recent vacation.She hung up the phone in her...

— Willie Manning saw things at Iwo Jima he preferred not to discuss, and things stayed that way for about 60 years.
Then one day several years ago, he was convalescing at the Hampton VA Medical Center for a spinal cord injury and posted a photo over...

So the Dow plunged 513 points Thursday, marking the worst day for the Dow since 2008.What it means for you depends on where you're invested, said Donald Ackley, Certified Financial Planner with Ameriprise Financial in Williamsburg."If you have a...

Almost two years have passed since Suzi Israel separated from her husband. After 20 years of marriage, her Army Reservist husband moved to Washington. Israel quickly filed a willful abandonment complaint with the family court in York County, but was...

NEWPORT NEWS — The little girl held the dollar bill out gingerly, her body language a combination of nervousness and utter fascination.The diminutive monkey takes the bill from her, places it in Jerry Brown's cap, and rewards the little girl with a kiss...

Dr. Frank McCue III, the University of Virginia athletics physician for more than 40 years, died Sunday at age 82.McCue served Cavaliers athletes, and hundreds of others from around the state, from 1961 until his retirement in 2003. The school’s athletics...

In the months ahead, the Virginia Port Authority and an independent review panel named by Transportation Secretary Pierce M. Homer will study three separate bids to determine whether to engage in a public-private partnership with the state's port...

Detroit emerged Friday from the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy with a life line as it seeks to recover from an ocean of debt and mismanagement that threatened to drown the onetime symbol of U.S. industrial might.
The court approval of the city’

As the Chicago City Council prepares to approve his latest budget Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel repeatedly has reminded voters that he didn't raise city property taxes during his first four years in office.
But that doesn't mean homeowners haven't had to...

Making his first post-election appearance at the Capitol on Thursday, Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner said he hopes the Illinois Supreme Court eventually will provide guidance on what changes are acceptable when it comes to fixing the state's more than $100...

A key Chicago City Council committee on Monday endorsed a new contract with more than 9,500 rank-and-file police officers, setting the stage for a full council vote Wednesday that will buy Mayor Rahm Emanuel some level of labor peace going into next...

Illinois voters headed to the polls Tuesday to settle a close, contentious race for governor and decide an unusually large number of ballot questions as well as races for U.S. Senate and House, the General Assembly and the County Board.
Missing...

Republican governors triumphed in key races on Tuesday in the political heavyweight states of Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin, joining the partisan tide that gave Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
In races shaped by voters'...

As a young federal prosecutor, Gary Shapiro was just days from trying his first big Chicago mob case in 1974 when masked men burst into a Bensenville plastics firm and fatally shot Danny Seifert in front of his wife and young son.
At the time, Seifert...

By Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin
Q: I am about to close on a short sale in Atlanta and I am being told my lender is going to issue me a 1099C. Can you give me the name of a good tax person I can speak to that might be willing to help me understand...